Being a member of the minority community, my fear of BJP coming back to power again is
increased. According to the latest
information gathered from here and there and of course from unofficial BJP source but
from the supporters of the BJP, there may be harassment for the minorities in
India in general and in Goa in particular.
Up to now neither clearly nor loudly and not openly BJP has officially denied those rumours. But one thing
is certain that writers like me will be harassed and minorities and their
previlleges will be curtailed, they will be treated worse than what they are
treated in Theocratic country like Pakistan. Under the worst communal leadership of Narendra Modi India was burnt escalating worst killing in Gujarat when Modi was its Chief Minister. These worst killings were perpetrated on Muslims for which Modi was held responsible and because of this, America banned Modi's entry in USA.
When there was any
injustice against the minorities in Goa for example against Christians, there
was no open opposition from any of our Christian MLA’s from the BJP rank. Our Christian MLA's and Montris were cowards and shellfish. When attempts
were made to cancel the Good Friday and 3rd December holidays, the
so powerful Mathanay Saldanha remained as a silent spectator; when according to one source, Francis D’Souza
was made to say something in favour of Hinduism, he totally jumped into
Hinduism even by taking his Christianity along by calling himself like a “Pochpochit”
a “Hindu Christao”; to please his Hindu
leaders Mawvin Godinho even went a step further and wearing a “Puddvem”
performed Hindu Pooja. A man without character, a big BLACK MARK on Catholicism.
If inspite of having such powerful persons from the minority
Christian community in the BJP rank and even holding important portfolios and
yet not raising their voices against the injustice done by their party and
government to the interest of Christians, then who will support and protect our
interest?
Again elections are
coming shortly and before the BJP contestants coming to our feet for begging
for our Christian votes, can they assure us that no harm will be done in any
way to the interest of Christians? And by the way, how they will assure us and how we to
believe them? Is there anything left in our contestants to show us that they
are reliable?
Now what will be the
role of our religious Gurus to guide us to vote correctly and not on communal
lines and not to bad candidates? What are the lessons from the Islamic and
Hindu Religious leaders for the Muslim and Hindu voters? Are they not responsible
to tell their own religious people to be upright as far as their oting rights
are concerned? They are religious duty bound to keep their respective religious
people calm and cool during the election.
Voting right it is said as “Sacred” and as such we must accept the
voting duty by casting our vote.
The Christian Church
leaders especially the Catholics are fully geared up to educate the voters as best as they can, they preach from the holy
Altar the details of voting except they don’t tell directly the name of the candidates openly. But I feel, the Church
leaders more or less are aware what is the quality of the contestant and as
such they must also name the candidates to vote.
All the three major
religious leaders must, if possible, have a meeting with them and they must come
out with certain points that will give them clear lesson to explain it to all
their voters. Up to now our minority community is having good resemblance of
theirs that they will not do any rubbish to win the elections. But they are very cheap and gullible easily attracted
to the money.
A.Veronica Fernandes.
